The Blue Hill Public Library and Blue Hill Books are cosponsoring a talk and reading with local poet Emma Krosschell for her new poetry collection Hermitage on Tuesday, October 15 at 7PM. 

Emma Krosschell and her partner spent a year living in quiet isolation – on a seven acre island off the Maine coast, and, during the winter months, in the mountains of Vermont. The poems in Hermitage, in which the beauty and the pain of loneliness, belonging, and selfhood interweave against the backdrop of the natural world, came out of that experience.

In Hermitage, Emma Krosschell inhabits a liminal space, somewhere between her mind and the living world of hemlock, crows, snow, wind, tides and stars. These are poems that begin in silence, and draw us into those moments when the world comes alive before her eyes. She is, above all, a witness, and we become witnesses along with her in this place where the finite, mortal self meets something greater. She is listening intently, seeing deeply, and her heart is wide open. – Stuart Kestenbaum, Former Poet Laureate of Maine

Emma Krosschell lives in Brooksville, Maine, with her partner and their dog. She spends her time wandering in the woods and baking as much bread as she can. Hermitage is her first collection of poetry.

This program is free and open to all, and will be held in the library's Howard Room. For more information, please email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas[at]bhpl.net or call the library at 374-5515. Blue Hill Books will be onsite with copies of the book available for purchase.